Thursday, May 11th 2017
MSI Shows Upcoming High-End Motherboard, Likely X299-based
Recent reports mentioned Intel's moves to bring forward the launch of their Basin Falls HEDT platform, which succeeds their X99 platform. Intel is doing this in hopes to hold the blue flag against AMD's upcoming X399 Ryzen-based HEDT platform (there's seemingly a war in numbers here), pitting 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12-core CPUs against AMD's expected 12-core and 16-core processors.
As such, it's only natural motherboard makers would also have to expedite their work on X299-based motherboards, and it would seem that MSI has done just that, simultaneously advancing their marketing campaign. A teaser image from the company showcases an as-of-yet unreleased motherboard (not just any motherboard, but the "Best. Motherboard. Ever") which boasts of a trio of M.2 slots (with MSI's M.2 Shield thermal solution), and four PCIe x16 slots. Are you still counting the number of PCI lanes needed to drive all these slots? Well, it just so happens Intel's Basin Falls is expected to deliver up to 44 PCIe 3.0 lanes, so those should be enough to at least make this ridiculous amount of slots worthwhile... For some use cases. There's also an additional power-supply connector on top of the first PCIe slot, which should increase power delivery for these. It's almost open season on these HEDT platforms, kind sirs.
Source:
ETeknix
As such, it's only natural motherboard makers would also have to expedite their work on X299-based motherboards, and it would seem that MSI has done just that, simultaneously advancing their marketing campaign. A teaser image from the company showcases an as-of-yet unreleased motherboard (not just any motherboard, but the "Best. Motherboard. Ever") which boasts of a trio of M.2 slots (with MSI's M.2 Shield thermal solution), and four PCIe x16 slots. Are you still counting the number of PCI lanes needed to drive all these slots? Well, it just so happens Intel's Basin Falls is expected to deliver up to 44 PCIe 3.0 lanes, so those should be enough to at least make this ridiculous amount of slots worthwhile... For some use cases. There's also an additional power-supply connector on top of the first PCIe slot, which should increase power delivery for these. It's almost open season on these HEDT platforms, kind sirs.
31 Comments on MSI Shows Upcoming High-End Motherboard, Likely X299-based
3 way CF, is not near dead for AMD, alot of people still run it.
if Nvidia did still support 3 way for gaming and just not benchmark, I would get it, like in the old days.
>Only shows picture of PCI-e expansion slots
Lmfao, what?
Oh n i agree blueberries.
Why give credit to some third party site when this was posted by MSI on Facebook?
If you can use PCIe slot 4 for a 4th M.2 with a riser card.
www.techpowerup.com/232707/you-can-now-purchase-intels-optane-memory-accelerator
Wonder if the Rampage VI Extreme X299 will have three M.2 slots?
Wonder how many of those slots will be water cooled with the Bitspower monoblock? :D
Hmmm, it's going to be an exciting Computex this year.
Keep those X299 teasers coming Lord Ravenclaw. :p:p:p:p:p
Is Ravenclaw from Harry Potter or a map in Half Life 2? :confused:
Yea, I just got a new (2nd) open air CaseLabs built last week with 5 rads (1x240mm and 4x120mm HWL MultiPorts) and it's just itching for a new ROG X299 mobo and Skylake X CPU. :D
Running on air right now, and its still extremely fast, just planning the fittings today, PPCS is trying to get some Bitspower Carbon Black special order put together for me.
I do believe I'm one of PPCS's top customers, not certain if that's good or bad. :roll:
Also, is this chipset going to allow for 24 PCIe 3.0 lanes as well as 44 PCIe lanes on the CPU? If the chipset has that many lanes available, do most consumers really need more than 16 lanes from the Kaby Lake-X or the probable 28-32 available on the low end 6-core Skylake-X?
CAUTION
ULTIMATE POWER
You gotta love that.
"This Motherboard is now the Ultimate Power in the Universe"
I have looked at some of the hardware sites that post the same blabla, and nobody gives any support of the argument and a diagram of X299 architecture next to said mistery pic.